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...anything," she expressed her desire for all of the boys in the class to jump in the lake. I didn't let anybody know about Rita, but ripples of rumor turned into waves of discontent: "I wish Rita with/her fat self shut her/garbage mouth and/turn into a fat white rat." Now I attempted to curb this bickering with a wish poem containing a color and a T.V. show. Most of these kids spend a lot of time watching television; some of them are allowed to stay up late because their parents just don't care. Here is the collaboration...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Among School Children | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...deftness and diplomacy, still widely unsuspected, emerged in his dealings with South Vietnamese officers. Assigned in 1967 as deputy to General William Westmoreland, Abrams courted top Saigon officers, accepting slights with patience and devouring a Vietnamese meal intended to make him gag-chicken heads, goat meat and paddy rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Ax and Scalpel | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...restrict, and later ban, the use of cyclamate in the U.S. An official of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in explaining HEW'S action, said, "It has nothing to do with previous studies of the effect of cyclamates on chick embryos or on studies of rat chromosomes in tissue culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Two Amnesties: Ford's. . . | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...suggests, would be to wean people away from the 55 most popular species and get them to try some of the 30,000 to 40,000 underutilized varieties - an effort that might mean changing the names of such potential delicacies as the cancer crab and the rat-tailed flounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Squeezing More Out of the Seas | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...poem's explicit sexuality is unusual, the grotesque forms of the goblins certainly are not. They are a cross between animals and human beings; some have tails, others snouts, one is mostly rat. The difference between people and wild creature is typically unclear in fantasy. Lewis Carroll, for example, had no qualms about letting pigs sneeze, cats grin or caterpillars counsel...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Silent Moving Ones | 5/21/1974 | See Source »

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